Merritt Parkway cleared after jamming traffic

By Jim Shay

Updated 9:53 am, Monday, September 25, 2017

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A truck that was involved in an accident on I-95 with a motor vehicle is stopped on the left shoulder on Monday, Sept. 25, 2017. That accident and another two-vehicle accident closed the northbound left lane between Exits 34 and 36 in Milford. less

A truck that was involved in an accident on I-95 with a motor vehicle is stopped on the left shoulder on Monday, Sept. 25, 2017. That accident and another two-vehicle accident closed the northbound left lane ... more

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Merritt Parkway cleared after jamming traffic

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A one-vehicle accident on the northbound Merritt Parkway caused big traffic delays Monday during the peak of the AM commute.

The crash, reported at 8:37 a.m., took out the right lane between Exits 52 and 53 in Stratford.

Northbound delays started more than five miles away in Trumbull before the Route 25 intersection.

By 9:30 a.m., the crash had been cleared and there were only residual delays in the area, with speeds in the mid-20s mph.

A half-hour earlier, the state Department of Transportation said it took about 25 minutes to travel from the Route 8 intersection to the Milford connector. The four-mile distance, without traffic problems, takes five minutes.

Although the crash was in the northbound lane, it also caused heavy southbound delays caused by cars slowing down to look at the accident.

Down county, southbound traffic on the Merritt is heaviest between Exit 44 in Fairfield to Exit 41 in Westport.